1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:13,880 Now enjoy this message. Tonight I want to talk a little 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:19,240 bit about matters of the heart. Matters of the heart. 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:26,120 In Proverbs 423 it says keep your heart with all diligence, 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,080 for out of its spring, the issues of life. 7 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:34,640 The amplified classic says it this way. 8 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:40,880 Keep and guard your heart with all diligence, vigilance, and 9 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:46,240 above all that you guard. For out of it flow the springs 10 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,720 of life. For out of your heart flow the 11 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:55,800 springs of life. This verse kind of obviously 12 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,400 talks about the importance of guarding your heart. 13 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,800 And it talks about the importance of being diligent 14 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,800 about your heart. Because from your heart flows 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,520 the spring of life, from your heart flows your words, from 16 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,160 your heart flows your thoughts, and from your heart flows 17 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:18,240 eventually your actions, right? The things that are inside of 18 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:23,720 you will always eventually come out of you, and those things 19 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,320 that have been inside your heart are ultimately what's going to 20 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,000 come out, right. So when we talk a little bit 21 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,680 today about the matters of the heart, I want to talk about the 22 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:38,120 importance of guarding your heart, the importance of keeping 23 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,320 your heart, the importance of making sure that our heart is 24 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:44,680 always in the right position to receive the right position to 25 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,040 serve, the right position to do anything. 26 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,600 Because if it's the wellspring of life, if our heart is what's 27 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,800 going to ultimately be what everything comes out of, then 28 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,240 it's obviously pretty important that we maintain the right heart 29 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:02,600 position. Matthew 1518 says, But what? 30 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,960 But whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart. 31 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,520 And this is what makes a man unclean and defiles him. 32 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,280 Whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart. 33 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,640 Ultimately, what we put inside of ourselves and our heart and 34 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:24,680 our spirit and what we are meditating on will always come 35 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:30,200 out of us eventually. It's always going to flow out of 36 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:37,200 us, Matthew 621 says. For where your treasure is, 37 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:43,720 there your heart will be also. Where your treasure is there 38 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,680 your heart will be also, right? So the wellspring of our life 39 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,360 comes from our heart and where our treasure is or the thing we 40 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,280 value also is where our heart is, which means what we're 41 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,880 valuing the most is where our heart is going to be. 42 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,160 Well, a lot of times, I know people like to use this when 43 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:04,520 specifically when it comes to where you're giving money, 44 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:05,600 right? Because you're going to give 45 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,000 money to things that you value. So where your heart, where your 46 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,280 money goes is where your heart is, which is absolutely true. 47 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,280 But we also know that there's things that are valued outside 48 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,240 of just monetary money and stuff as well. 49 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,840 So where your value, what you value is where your heart will 50 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,960 ultimately be. And if we're not careful about 51 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,280 checking where our heart is at all times, we can find ourselves 52 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,120 getting out. A couple weeks ago, Pastor was 53 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,680 talking and he made the statement that it's not just 54 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,400 enough to hear. It's not just about hearing the 55 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,560 Word, it's about how you hear the Word, right? 56 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,840 How you hear the Word is just as important as hearing the word in 57 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,160 general. And how we hear the word will be 58 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,920 determined by where our heart posture is. 59 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,360 Where our heart position is, is what's going to determine how we 60 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:01,840 hear things, right? Because the things we set inside 61 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,520 of us kind of determine how we view stuff. 62 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,840 The way we think a conversation goes, we start to read into it, 63 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,720 right? This is why I'm not a huge fan 64 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,160 of dealing with like, you know, semi important metals over text 65 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,600 message because you just don't get tone. 66 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,480 Over text message. You know, you can't. 67 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,200 You can't really. So if you think someone's angry 68 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,960 and they send a text, you read it angrily. 69 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:32,040 Oh, dot dot dot, huh? OK, OK, well, let's OK dot dot 70 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,760 dot dot, right? You start replying and you're 71 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,200 putting motive into text because your heart position is that this 72 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,880 is an issue when maybe it's not right. 73 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,320 The position of our heart will determine how we hear and how we 74 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,200 receive. And in this scripture we read 75 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,240 first it lets us know that it is important for us to be diligent 76 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,280 to guard over our heart, to guard over this because out of 77 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:02,840 its froze flows the springs of life and the issues of life. 78 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,600 Meaning our heart position, whether will either lead us into 79 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,640 great life or it will lead us into issues of life. 80 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,520 This is why when you have like a bad day, it seems like 81 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,720 everything just kind of snowballs on top of itself, 82 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,200 right? You wake up, you're having a 83 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,080 rough morning, and then it just seems like from there, every 84 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,920 minor inconvenience is just the biggest deal ever. 85 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:32,680 You wake up. You're running late, you get in 86 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:34,440 the car and the gas is almost empty. 87 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,400 Why couldn't they fill up the gas yesterday? 88 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,400 They never filled the gas and now it's not about gas anymore. 89 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,000 It's about everything they've ever done in their life that's 90 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,600 wrong. Yesterday they left their shoes 91 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,680 downstairs, shipped almost coming down the steps. 92 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,440 I told him not to leave shoes. There now they're there. 93 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,600 If they would have picked up the shoes, there might be gas in the 94 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,640 car, right. Like all of this stuff just 95 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,400 starts to compound and if our hearts off, it just continues to 96 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,200 go, then we get to work and they're like, you walk by and 97 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:04,400 maybe they don't say hey, you're like, come on. 98 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:05,720 I'm not even going to say hey this morning not. 99 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,680 Even going to say hey OK fine, fine. 100 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,160 They'll speak to me before I speak to them. 101 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:13,680 Right, our heart position and our heart posture starts to 102 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,040 change the way we view every conversation we get into. 103 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,280 And then even though nothing's wrong, everything's wrong. 104 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,360 This is why it tells us we have to be diligent to seek after our 105 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,520 heart. We have to maintain the right 106 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,440 heart position. So tonight I want to talk about 107 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,760 three things we can do to make sure we maintain the proper 108 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,760 heart position. Three things we can do to make 109 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,040 sure we maintain the proper heart position. 110 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,160 The first thing we have to do is we have to search our hearts. 111 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,280 The first thing you have to do is search your heart. 112 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:53,440 Psalms 13923 through 24 in the Passion translation says it this 113 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,600 way. God, I invite your searching 114 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:01,520 gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through. 115 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,800 Find out everything that may be hidden within me. 116 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:11,000 Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares. 117 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:17,080 See if there is any path of, of pain I'm walking in and lead me 118 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:21,480 back to Your glorious everlasting way, the path that 119 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:28,960 brings me back to You. We have to keep our heart, heart 120 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,560 posture in a position to say search my heart. 121 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:37,880 Lord, Is there anything in me that is causing me to to not be 122 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,440 in the correct position with you? 123 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:47,680 Am I holding on to something that is causing me to have a, a 124 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,040 a skewed view on everything else that's going around? 125 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,480 You have to search your heart and see the matters of the heart 126 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,200 are always tricky because we always love that that famous 127 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,440 saying, right? Well, God knows my heart and 128 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:10,360 we've heard Pastor Earl say you sure bet he does, right? 129 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,400 That's kind of like the go to line is like, well, God knows my 130 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,680 heart, but we're going to break into some scripture that you 131 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,560 know what? God does know your heart and you 132 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,840 know your heart, but your heart will always prove. 133 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:27,040 Out in evidence. Because if you're living with a 134 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,440 correct heart, it will always shine through to everyone and 135 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:35,919 everyone will know your heart. See, when we search our heart, 136 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:39,280 we have to eliminate self selfishness. 137 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,800 We have to eliminate anything that we have been ourselves that 138 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:50,040 we seek or desire after on our own, anything that we're holding 139 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,360 on to that we shouldn't be because self selfishness and the 140 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:59,240 Kingdom cannot coexist. It can't coexist together. 141 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:04,200 God says you'll follow my word and you'll follow my will and 142 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:09,880 that is the law of the land. You're going to do what the 143 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:14,200 original sin, Adam eating the fruit was what I want to be like 144 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:18,200 God. It was motivated by a selfish 145 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:24,560 desire that I want to place myself somewhere I can find a 146 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:31,720 way to do this without God. I can find the solution on my. 147 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,080 Own. If you don't search your heart 148 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,920 and say God, is there anything within me, then we leave the 149 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,440 opportunity for selfishness to take root in our lives. 150 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:49,000 And once we start to have selfish desires, it starts to 151 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,920 change the way we see everything. 152 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,760 This is why so many people can get in the word and start to 153 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:59,840 twist it to fit what they want. I get to teach Kingdom Institute 154 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,520 here at the church in one of the class I get to teach is purpose. 155 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,560 And one of the biggest things I see, one of the biggest 156 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:06,800 struggles I see when people come to dealing with what is my 157 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,480 purpose is they they want to figure out how the things they 158 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:17,520 love fit into it. Because God gave me a gift and a 159 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,000 talent, OR because because I really enjoy this, then this 160 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:28,560 must be my purpose. So then we start to read into 161 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:31,880 everything, trying to figure out how that fits. 162 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,120 And then we can find scripture that somewhat works with it. 163 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,040 And now we're trying to be selfishly motivated, but backed 164 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:47,360 by a scripture, right? We have to search our heart and 165 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,880 eliminate those things. God gave you gifts and talents 166 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,560 and God might use some of those gifts and talents to further you 167 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:54,480 in. And I'm always blown away by 168 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,240 what God can use later in your life. 169 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,760 I I use so much of when I served as a as a waiter at Cheddar's. 170 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:06,280 Even now in the way I manage administration and the way I 171 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,600 manage multiple things at once were were skill sets I learned 172 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,080 as a server. But just because I was a really 173 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,040 good server doesn't mean God destined me to be a server. 174 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,640 I moved through serving really fast. 175 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,040 I started had no prior experience in the restaurant. 176 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:27,160 Got the job, started working some small tops my third weekend 177 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,120 someone throws a plate at a server, they get into a fist 178 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,360 fight and start brawling in the party section. 179 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:39,320 I'm like what's going on? They kick everyone out. 180 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,600 The the manager comes like, hey, I need you to run this party 181 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,280 section. Like I just learned the menu. 182 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,360 So I start serving in this party section and I never go back. 183 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,760 I start parties, I'm getting 30 tops, 40 tops. 184 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,960 I'm running multiple tables. It's increasing. 185 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,440 I could have very well be like, man, I'm so good at this. 186 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:03,760 I'm the highest earner of everyone here. 187 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,000 God's given me so many abilities. 188 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,920 I can excel here. But there was always another 189 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,360 reason I was there. I served because it was at night 190 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,720 and I didn't have to miss church in the on Sunday morning. 191 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,880 And I was also one of the only ones on every. 192 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,320 Constant rotating nights. There's a server like you found 193 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,560 out Monday what the week schedule was. 194 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,520 You could be working that night not know until the day of. 195 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,160 It was crazy and everyone had to work Sundays. 196 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,160 I was the only one that had a consistent schedule that never 197 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,960 changed. I worked the exact same thing. 198 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,560 I stopped checking after like a month because it was just always 199 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:48,920 the same because I held to. I will not miss Wednesday 200 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,160 nights, I will not miss Sunday mornings. 201 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,680 I will not miss these things and they made a way to make it work 202 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:56,960 and I didn't suffer from a money. 203 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,200 Position for it. I didn't suffer from a serving 204 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,280 position for it. I put those things first. 205 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:05,120 I never lost sight of what it was I was trying to accomplish 206 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,680 and I didn't let it pull me out of what I was doing. 207 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:13,040 I didn't start to seek own selfish desires and ambitions. 208 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,080 We can't let ourselves seek in. When we search our heart. 209 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,040 We have to be willing to cut out anything that we might even 210 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:27,200 think is the right thing. Search my heart, O Lord, is a 211 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:31,360 lot more deep than just cutting off the top layer of stuff. 212 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,920 Top layer stuff isn't matters of the heart, matters of the heart 213 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,680 of those deep things that you've got rooted inside of you. 214 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:49,280 So when we say search my heart, we have to realize we're opening 215 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:56,000 ourselves up to some deep pruning, some deep cutting, some 216 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,040 deep removal of things that we might have held on to for a long 217 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,640 time. Psalms 5110 says create in me a 218 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:08,320 clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 219 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,480 Remove everything out of me that would get in the way. 220 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,960 Remove every selfish desire. Remove anything that's blocking 221 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:22,040 me from being fully devoted to what you have for me and 222 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,760 creating me a steadfast spirit, something that will not allow 223 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:34,560 things to creep back in first. John, 215 through 17, says do 224 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:39,480 not love the world, nor the things in the world, if anyone. 225 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,520 Loves the world. The love of the Father is not in 226 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,040 him, for all that is in the world. 227 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,440 The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boastful 228 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,680 pride of life is not from the Father, but it's from the world. 229 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,720 The world is passing away and also its lust, but the one who 230 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:01,240 does the will of God lives forever. 231 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,800 When we search our hearts, we're saying, God, I want to eliminate 232 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,240 any love I have for something outside of you. 233 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,920 I want to eliminate any desire I have for something outside of 234 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:23,320 You. I'm willing to let anything go 235 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,200 to pursue after you. And when we're searching our 236 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,160 heart, we're uprooting these things. 237 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,560 We're making room now to do the second step, which is fill your 238 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,000 heart. You have to search your heart. 239 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,080 Then you have to fill your heart. 240 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:46,160 Psalms 11911 says your word. Have I laid up in my heart that 241 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:52,800 I might not sin against you? Once we've removed selfish 242 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,760 desire from our heart, Once we've removed deep rooted issues 243 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,000 inside of us that are keeping us from attaining what He has, Once 244 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,560 we've pulled out this stuff that keeps us from viewing everything 245 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,200 spoken with a curve. Once we eliminate this stuff, we 246 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,120 open up the position now to fill it with the Word so that we can 247 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,240 be so full. The word that we can know that 248 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:17,800 it's always going to be what comes out of us, so that it's 249 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,400 always the thing that is held inside of us. 250 00:16:29,050 --> 00:16:32,890 The more you keep the word in you, the more you will react 251 00:16:32,890 --> 00:16:38,890 like it. The more you keep the word 252 00:16:38,890 --> 00:16:42,170 inside of you, the more you will react like the word. 253 00:16:42,370 --> 00:16:45,570 Says. To see, we search our heart. 254 00:16:45,690 --> 00:16:49,600 We remove things and then we fill it with the Word. 255 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,000 The word is what is supposed to fill the void that you have. 256 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,600 People like man, I feel like there's just a void in my heart. 257 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,200 There's just something missing. That's the Word. 258 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:09,079 Then that's the word of God. Because with the Word comes 259 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:11,480 Lovejoy, peace, patience. Goodness, kindness, and all the 260 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,880 other fruit. Once we start getting in the 261 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,040 word and allow it to fill any void that we might have, then 262 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:22,480 it's going to be the only thing that flows out of us, and the 263 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,000 word is the only thing that can properly fill it. 264 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,280 This is why people search for so long and alcohol or 265 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,760 relationships or so many other things, because they're trying 266 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,080 to fill something that the word is supposed to. 267 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:45,000 You're trying to fill up a bucket that has no bottom and 268 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,960 you're just dumping stuff into it, hoping something sticks. 269 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,400 But the Word is the thing we have to fill our life with. 270 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,960 Colossians 316 says, Let the word of Christ richly dwell 271 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:04,920 within you with all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one 272 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,680 another, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing 273 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,600 with thankfulness in your. Hearts. 274 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:17,960 To God, let the Word of Christ richly dwell within you. 275 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:24,640 We want to fill ourselves with the Word that will richly dwell. 276 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,880 Amen. We want to fill ourselves with 277 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,960 something that's going to sustain us, something that's 278 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:31,800 going to carry us, something that's going to hold us. 279 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,000 Through something that when any trial comes, we fall back on. 280 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,880 Galatians 6-7 and eight says do not be deceived. 281 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:50,280 God is not marked for whatever a man sows this he will also reap. 282 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,720 For the one who sows to his own flesh will reap from the flesh 283 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,640 corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap from the 284 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,680 flesh eternal life. I'm going to read this again in 285 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,760 the the Passion. I like the way they say it says 286 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:06,800 God will never be mocked, for what you plant will always be 287 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:12,760 the very thing you harvest. The harvest you reap reveals the 288 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:17,920 seed that you planted. If you plant the corrupt seeds 289 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,560 of self life into this natural realm you can expect a harvest 290 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,880 of corruption. If you plant the good seeds of 291 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,240 the spirit life you will reap the beautiful fruits that grow 292 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,520 from the everlasting life of the Spirit. 293 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,880 What you put in you will determine what comes out of. 294 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:43,720 You. Every time we hear the word 295 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:49,880 seeds are being planted, then we fill our hearts by watering 296 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:54,280 those seeds. We guard our hearts by removing 297 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,120 things that might not needed to have been planted. 298 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,520 Because every time we hear something, we have the ability 299 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,800 to either strengthen a belief. And continue to grow. 300 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,040 Or maybe we hear something that we're like, that's not right. 301 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:17,240 And if we're not vigilant to remove it, it can then take root 302 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,160 and start to skew everything else we see. 303 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,520 This is why you don't just listen to anyone. 304 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,600 This is why you can't just listen to anything. 305 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,640 This is why you don't just go out and try to find everything, 306 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,440 because some The worst thing, I think it was said that the worst 307 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,640 thing is not a lie, but it's an almost truth. 308 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,560 It's something that sounds so close to being right that it's 309 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:49,280 hard to tell it's wrong. And that's all in people's 310 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,280 theology. Things that are so close to 311 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,840 being right, but just aren't the. 312 00:20:54,840 --> 00:21:00,040 Kingdom. And if we're not careful to to 313 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:04,360 remove that, then we can find it starting to take root in US. 314 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:11,280 Proverbs 2719 says, as in water, face reflects face. 315 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,800 So the heart of man reflects man. 316 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,960 This is what I talked about earlier. 317 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,080 You are a reflection of your heart. 318 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,040 So when we make the statement, well, God knows my heart, 319 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,960 everyone should know your heart because you should be reflecting 320 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:35,840 your heart. And if our heart is where our 321 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,080 treasure is or our heart is where the things we value is, 322 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,200 then we are a reflection of the things we value. 323 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,720 We are a reflection of the things we value. 324 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,040 So if we are not reflecting the word. 325 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:56,960 Do we value? The word. 326 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:06,200 Do we value the word enough that we keep it inside of us, stored 327 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,160 up, and we become a reflection of it? 328 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,880 That when people see us, they see Christ? 329 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,000 That's what Christian means to be Christ. 330 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:21,480 Like when people see us, do they see a reflection of the Kingdom? 331 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,560 Do they see a reflection of an heir to the throne? 332 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,600 Do they see a reflection of someone with authority? 333 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,400 Do they see the reflection of someone who knows their position 334 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,800 in Christ? Do they see a reflection of 335 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:38,880 someone walking in this? Because if we have to go around 336 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,200 telling people all the time, well, God knows my heart, then 337 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:48,840 what are we reflecting? What are we reflecting? 338 00:22:55,370 --> 00:22:57,890 Because if we're reflecting the word, then we're going to. 339 00:22:57,890 --> 00:23:03,050 Value the word and things that are valuable look different to 340 00:23:03,050 --> 00:23:05,450 people, right? People have people hold 341 00:23:05,450 --> 00:23:07,530 different standards of what they view as valuable. 342 00:23:07,530 --> 00:23:09,810 We've all heard the statement that one man's trash is another 343 00:23:09,810 --> 00:23:13,400 man's treasure means something that you find super valuable. 344 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,760 Someone else might not care about, but it's valuable to you. 345 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,680 And so you start reflecting it. Has anyone like met like a 346 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,440 really quiet person who doesn't talk a lot? 347 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,360 But then you find that one subject that they just won't 348 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:31,320 stop talking about and you realize, man, they value this. 349 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,000 They. Value this. 350 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,960 They sell out to this. This is what they know, this is 351 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,080 what they do. This is where they spend their 352 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,680 time. This is where they invest 353 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,440 everything they have. I'm one of those one that I'm 354 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,600 one of those kind of people that gets like really committed to 355 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,440 every new hobby I get into. Like, you know, I remember when 356 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,280 a rock climbing place opened in town, like I went like twice and 357 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,200 I was like, I love this. I bought my own shoes, I bought 358 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,000 like my own gear. I spent like way too much money 359 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,840 on stuff and I went like four more times. 360 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:09,320 I like really committed for that one small season, right? 361 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,320 And I showed I put a lot of value into it at that one little 362 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,640 time and then it just kind of went away. 363 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,560 Or maybe we get something new and we value it a lot for a 364 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,000 season, right? Like you get a brand new car and 365 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,240 every day you get out of it, you take all the trash, you wipe it 366 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,760 down, you keep like those armor, all wipes in the back. 367 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,680 You have air fresheners in there. 368 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,760 Then two years later someone comes by and they're like, hey, 369 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,960 I'll just ride with you. And you're like, OK, give me a 370 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,360 second. You run and try to like, dump 371 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,920 everything out. And then they get in the car and 372 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,840 you're like, sorry, it's not usually like this. 373 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,840 It's been like that for a year, right? 374 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,400 The value you had for it has been lost. 375 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,160 Something that was once really dear to you, that you wanted to 376 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,560 be a great reflection of you. You stop valuing with time, 377 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,360 which means you can be in something every day. 378 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,880 You can take care of something a little bit every day. 379 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,480 You fill it up with gas, you put air in the tires, you get the 380 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,960 oil change. You take care of it enough. 381 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:27,280 I checked the box on my Bible reading, but I'm not actually 382 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:32,320 valuing it. I'm not getting into the word 383 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,120 with a value. I'm not coming to a Wednesday 384 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:36,600 night service saying, God, what do you have for me tonight? 385 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,360 There's a word being spoken and you have something for me that 386 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:45,120 I'm supposed to hear because I value this time. 387 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,600 I value the word. I value this. 388 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,840 What's funny is most people get to this place where like, man, 389 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,440 I'm just so busy. And then it's like, it's hard. 390 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,160 You know, you're just like trying to make it a church and 391 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,560 then you're just like, well, I'm here. 392 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,560 If your time is so busy, then why would you not value this the 393 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,320 most when you're here? We don't want to come in a seat 394 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,280 and then clock out. So now we just, we're so busy 395 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,320 and we don't have time and then we devoted time, but then we 396 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,760 don't actually devote attention or value to it. 397 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:14,080 And then we wonder why we don't reflect it. 398 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,640 This is why when things start to get off, one of the first 399 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,560 questions people ask like a little how's your Bible reading? 400 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,360 How's your devotional time? You spending time with God? 401 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,760 Because when you get out of it, it starts to affect the way your 402 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:32,960 life starts to snowball. You catch yourself slipping 403 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:37,240 because you haven't been filling your time and keeping it full 404 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:42,160 with the word. And then we stop reflecting it 405 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,080 in moments where we lash out or we do something wrong. 406 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,480 And though you're like, man, that wasn't a good reflection of 407 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,520 what I truly love, but I need to. 408 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:59,040 Get back to that first desire I had when I found Christ for the 409 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,480 first time and I was so hungry that I couldn't think of 410 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,920 anything else but to do it. I remember some people who came, 411 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,720 you know, for the first time on a Sunday that we started Kingdom 412 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,000 Rise and they, they were so moved by the service that they 413 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,640 came to every single Kingdom Rise so they can get there five 414 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,200 times in because they were so hungry and excited and had so 415 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,760 much value that was placed. You had to drag them out of 416 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,760 here. Now you got to drag them in. 417 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:28,520 That was a really good collective. 418 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:32,760 Somebody harmonized. I heard it. 419 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,200 Right. What I'm trying to say is have 420 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,160 are we, are we checking our heart to make sure we're still 421 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,840 valuing something that's been placed? 422 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,760 Because Anchor Faith Church has been here for 20 years. 423 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,920 Some of you guys have seen us for a long time. 424 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,600 Some of you guys have known us for a long time. 425 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,640 Some of you have heard this word before. 426 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,400 For a lot of you, this isn't even new. 427 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,480 You know to guard your heart, you know to value the word. 428 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,440 But it's easy to just stop because it's just something we 429 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:06,640 do now. It's easy for it to just become 430 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,160 formulaic. And I sit in the same seat every 431 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:13,920 Sunday and I get here at the exact same time and I get the 432 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,680 exact same coffee. Some of you wear the exact same 433 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:26,000 outfit. You have one Sunday best and we 434 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,840 just go through the motion and we lose the value of it. 435 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,840 We have to search our heart. Then we have to fill our heart 436 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,800 and we have to keep that heart full with value and with 437 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,200 anything valuable. You have to guard it. 438 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,960 You have to search your heart. You have to feel your heart and 439 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:51,600 you have to guard your heart. We got to make sure we're not 440 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:56,560 letting other things creep in that pull us away from the 441 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,600 things we once loved, that we don't let other things start to 442 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:09,080 take root. Right, because The thing is when 443 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,320 you first find something valuable, you protected a lot. 444 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,360 Like I said, like you get this new car, you park like far back, 445 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:19,960 right? I'm not parking by anyone. 446 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,400 I want an empty space, don't want to Ding on it. 447 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,760 Then the first Ding comes, the first battle of life comes, and 448 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,440 all of a sudden we're just parking anywhere because the 449 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:37,880 newness is worn off and we let our guard down. 450 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:42,640 Right. Because sometimes we keep our 451 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,880 guard up for so long and nothing's going wrong because 452 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,480 we've got the guard up that we decide to LAX a little bit and 453 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:56,760 then it all falls apart. You know, I remember I got, I 454 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:57,960 was traveling. I know I was going to be out of 455 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,080 country for a couple weeks. And so I was like, man, I really 456 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:05,080 got to get my diet together. So I was like good, solid four 457 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,640 or five weeks, strict, no cheat meals, no nothing. 458 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,320 Go out of the country, eat like a madman. 459 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,960 Everything, doubling cheese, doubling pasta. 460 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,800 Let's get it. Let my guard fully down. 461 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,080 Then you come back and it takes a long time to recover. 462 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,080 It takes even longer to get back in what was easy Like what was 463 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,240 my go to? Breakfast now just doesn't taste 464 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,520 as good. I'm like, man, just going to. 465 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,760 I don't want to make that again like I was having this. 466 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,560 Every day for six weeks I had no problem. 467 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:48,080 Now all of a sudden I'm like, eggs, How many eggs? 468 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,320 I've had got to make 18 eggs every time. 469 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,680 I make eggs for my family now, you know, Quickie goes through 470 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,400 18 eggs. Me and my wife had to buy 471 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,040 chickens just to try to keep up with all the eggs we're eating. 472 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,240 Mr. Larry, I think, is holding out on me on some of my eggs, 473 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,360 doubling up. They don't make it all girls. 474 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,640 Just tear them up man. Right. 475 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,840 What was once easy and once just flowed out of you because your 476 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,480 guard was there, your value was there. 477 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,080 You started to see change in your life. 478 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,600 You started to see something that looked a little different. 479 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,760 You started to get excited about where you were and where you 480 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,800 were going. You could start to see yourself 481 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,080 at a finish line. You can start to see yourself in 482 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,120 the future. You get a little derailed and 483 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,960 then it takes you forever to get back. 484 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,000 That's why it says be diligent to guard your heart. 485 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:41,160 Be vigilant about it. It says above all else, guard 486 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,680 your heart. Because if out of your heart 487 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,920 flows the springs of life, flows the issues of life, then we have 488 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,080 to be very purposeful to make sure that we're keeping that 489 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:58,680 thing locked down. Offense starts in the heart. 490 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,240 Offense starts with a thought taking root. 491 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,800 Offense starts because we don't properly remove something 492 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,600 quickly or go to the source of an issue fast enough. 493 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,520 And then we start to put what we think they're thinking on the 494 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,360 situation when maybe they were never thinking it. 495 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,200 Maybe that was never their thought. 496 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,520 Maybe they were just having a bad day and there's they didn't 497 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:32,560 even realize they affected you. But we didn't guard our heart 498 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,480 properly. Now we've let something seed in 499 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,280 and we just think this person doesn't like us anymore or has a 500 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,400 problem with us now. And every time we see them, 501 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,200 we're kind of like, well, are they going to say hey to me? 502 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,400 And so now I'm being offish and they're not approaching me 503 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,560 because I'm being offish. But I think it's them. 504 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,960 It's the matters of the heart. It's us taking the 505 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,920 responsibility to sit back and say search my heart. 506 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,120 Am I off on this? I'll never forget one day I went 507 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,040 to Publix and there was someone they had gotten upset. 508 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,760 They left the church. You know what happens? 509 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,640 I'm walking through Publix and I see this individual. 510 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:16,960 You know, I always think it's a good gauges. 511 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,720 Can you communicate with somebody right? 512 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,960 If you feel like you need to hide, you're probably not a 513 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,800 great spot. I'm walking down Publix. 514 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:30,040 This person walks by me and they their car, they're like looking 515 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,240 like inspecting the roof all of a sudden, like you couldn't have 516 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,240 just grabbed. A box off the shelf like they're 517 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,640 full blown full neck back. Oh man. 518 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:47,200 Huh look at that. Wow so I just you know kind of 519 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,040 wave. They don't obviously probably 520 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:56,400 don't see me because they're way up here right, but I was fine. 521 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,360 I. Was like, I'll say hey, I got a 522 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,800 problem, people move on, people find different things, no big 523 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,560 deal. But apparently it was to them 524 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,920 something set in enough that they couldn't even imagine 525 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:19,840 giving just a because you could one of them. 526 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,040 I've gotten some of those before. 527 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,600 Like, hey, at least you wave. This guy almost broke his neck. 528 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,480 I mean, I was curious enough. I looked up. 529 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,120 Did I miss something? Maybe there is something 530 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,840 interesting up there. So how do we guard our hearts? 531 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:48,400 We got our heart. Proverbs 3/5 through six says 532 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,800 trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your 533 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,760 own understanding and always acknowledge Him and He will make 534 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,040 your path straight. We have to guard our heart 535 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,440 through trust. We got our heart through 536 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,560 trusting God's Word, through trusting God's plans, through 537 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,520 trusting that His Word will prevail, through trusting that 538 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,640 His Word is enough. Whether I see it now or not, I 539 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:17,400 trust God's Word will work. And if I have such trust in 540 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:26,000 God's Word, it brings peace, it brings peace, it brings comfort 541 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:28,440 and peace in Philippians 47 says. 542 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,480 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, 543 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:36,200 will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 544 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,800 Amen. When you're not stressing about 545 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,880 something, then you're not going to be worried about things 546 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,960 taking root. When we have full trust in God, 547 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,400 it can bring peace that we know we're good. 548 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,280 Right, when I first started travelling, you know, my, my one 549 00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:55,560 daughter Scotty was a lot more apprehensive of me being gone. 550 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,520 And by a little bit, I mean a lot. 551 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,440 I mean like every night we had a problem Facetiming, like, hey, 552 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,480 I'm going to be back. It's going to be OK, right? 553 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,760 Like you're fine, your mom's there. 554 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,520 But when I come back, all of a sudden she sleeps all the way 555 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,000 through the night. Why? 556 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,600 Because I brought peace. Into the situation. 557 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:25,080 For her, I brought peace enough that there was no anxiety, there 558 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,760 was No Fear. There's nowhere she knew. 559 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:32,440 If Dad's here, then everything's going to be fine if Dad's here. 560 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,640 So we had to teach her that, look, God is the source of 561 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,840 peace, and whether I'm here or not, I'm going and doing what 562 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,680 God wants. Nothing's going to happen to 563 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:46,520 you, right? You bring peace in and peace 564 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,800 will guard your heart from trying to find other solutions. 565 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,640 When I fully trust God, I'm not going somewhere else to try to 566 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,680 find answers. I'm going to the word that 567 00:36:55,680 --> 00:37:00,080 should be full inside of me. I'm going back to the thing that 568 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:07,640 should be so in my heart that it comes out is our first response 569 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:16,840 is the word is our go to the word or is our go to trying to 570 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:23,880 find solutions on our own? Is our go to trying to just make 571 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:28,080 it work. I'm the kind of person who can 572 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,120 figure like I like to just figure things out. 573 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,800 Like if something's wrong, I will, I like, I will create a 574 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,160 solution. I will find the problem, I will 575 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,120 find the solution, and I will implement this thing so that we 576 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,760 can get the course corrected. But at the same time, I also 577 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,200 have to be able to step back and say I might be able to find a 578 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,440 solution, but is my solution the right solution? 579 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,080 Because just because the problem solved doesn't mean the problem 580 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:02,720 was solved correctly, right? Because I might be pretty good 581 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:05,520 with computers, but I am horrible at maintenance things 582 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,880 and if there's a leak. I might be able to take that 583 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,600 thing to. Stop. 584 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,840 But that's the only going to hold for so long, right? 585 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,920 I have no problem hanging pictures in my house. 586 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,400 When I hang my TV, I'm calling Bradley. 587 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,720 Like, look, man, I ain't risking this thing falling. 588 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,880 I need you to come here and help me out. 589 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:28,400 I get it. There's studs. 590 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:29,920 There's things. You find them. 591 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,120 Understand the concept. I trust him more. 592 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,200 I trust him more than I trust myself. 593 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,480 There's also nothing worse, in my opinion, than me hanging 594 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,880 something crooked and being like, got to redo the whole 595 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,720 thing pretty easy. When Bradley does, I'm going, 596 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,880 you know, maybe it's a little crooked, man, we need you to fix 597 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,520 it for me. He's never actually hung 598 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,120 anything crooked in my house, which is why I call Bradley, 599 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,320 right? But at the same time, just 600 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,400 because I could do it doesn't mean I would be the best one to 601 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:03,680 do it. And so if I fully trust in God 602 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,600 that I'm going to look for Him for the best solution to any 603 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:12,520 problem I start to get into. Some things come quick because 604 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,520 the more you're filled with the Word, the quicker these answers 605 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,440 come. I'm not saying that everything 606 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,200 you go through in life requires prayer and fasting, but it 607 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,520 should ever be off the table, right? 608 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,480 Because the next way we guard our heart is through prayer, 609 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,240 through seeking, through staying with the word. 610 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:35,080 Jeremiah 2912 through 13 says, then you will call upon me and 611 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,040 come and pray to me and I will listen to you. 612 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,400 You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all 613 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:48,840 of your heart. See, I always think it's. 614 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,160 Interesting when they add things like this to scriptures because 615 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:52,840 a lot of times people like kind of negate them. 616 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,360 You will you. Will pray you hey you. 617 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,800 Seek me and you will find me. How many times have you heard 618 00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,680 that? How many times have we heard? 619 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,320 You seek me and you will find me. 620 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:07,640 And everyone's like, yeah, with all of your heart meaning you 621 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,240 can seek. And not find if all your heart. 622 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:18,000 Ain't in it. These are the important things 623 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,600 to bring up. I understand it's not a shouty 624 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,920 to to end it like that, but at the same time I'd be doing you a 625 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,680 disservice to just yell you'll seek me and you'll find me. 626 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,000 But if you don't do with all his heart, then you're going to feel 627 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,600 like you're seeking, but you're not really seeking because 628 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,240 you're not seeking correctly. So when you don't fire him, you 629 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:36,320 think, oh, it didn't work when God's word works every time 630 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,000 period. That's why this is here, and it 631 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,320 lets you know you seek me with all your heart. 632 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:45,560 You will find me. And when you seek something with 633 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,960 all your heart, when you care about something and value 634 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,320 something so much, it takes top precedent and priority in your 635 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,480 life. Meaning I will cut out 636 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:59,760 everything else to get this answer, to seek after him, to 637 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,200 find this. Everything convenient to me, all 638 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,760 the plans I've made, all of my daily routines, all of my 639 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,680 schedule, everything I've placed that I feel like is great. 640 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,240 I'm willing to let it go, to seek after you, to find you. 641 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:19,160 Because I will give you all of my heart in every moment. 642 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:28,440 Seek me and you will find me when you search with all of your 643 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:33,440 heart. See, when it comes to matters of 644 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:42,000 the heart, we have to be willing to to realize that we can be 645 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,760 wrong a lot more than we want to be. 646 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:51,880 That our emotions can guide us to places that aren't the 647 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:58,960 spirit. Your emotions aren't your heart. 648 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:14,720 Being led by your feelings is not feeling your heart right. 649 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,000 This isn't about all of this song makes me feel good so I can 650 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:23,000 really worship in this one because I get goosebumps now. 651 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:29,360 What is the word being spoken? What am I singing over my life? 652 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,480 What am I saying when I sing these songs? 653 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,080 What am I saying when I get in this moment? 654 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,760 What am I doing? Because you know what? 655 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:38,720 I love worship and I can get in worship. 656 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,080 I'm a big worshiper. I've written worship songs here, 657 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,960 Frankie Faith Church. I've done some stuff with them. 658 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:44,720 I've traveled with them. I played, I've been at East 659 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:46,160 Coast Camp. When we're on stage, you know, 660 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,040 the kids are going crazy wild and it's just like one of the 661 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,680 easiest things to jump around to. 662 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,480 But I've also been in amazing moments where there's complete 663 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:59,120 silence and you'll realize your heart for God real fast. 664 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,000 Because when everything gets quiet and no one's prompting 665 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,000 you, am I filled enough with the Word that I know what to do in 666 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,240 the moment? That I know how to navigate this 667 00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:16,600 thing? That I know how to put myself in 668 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:21,080 the proper position of opening up my heart to receive something 669 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:27,960 from God. See, the more we continue to to 670 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:32,120 fill our our hearts, the bigger our input, the greater our 671 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,960 output. The more you start to get inside 672 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:38,960 of you, the more you can start to give out of you. 673 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,840 I've said it before, some of us only solve surface problems 674 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:44,560 because we only have surface word. 675 00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,240 We struggle with the deep problems because we don't have 676 00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:55,640 the word deep inside our heart. So when those big troubles come, 677 00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,680 we're tapped out. I've got nothing to pull from. 678 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,920 Here's the thing, the the higher level you obtain, the more you 679 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,160 begin to input. The more you get into seasons 680 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:13,120 where you're just rolling, the more that you need to keep it up 681 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:18,360 there, right? Because the more spiritual 682 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,360 maturity you have, the more that's going to be able to give 683 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,280 you more output in people's lives. 684 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,600 And the more output that you have in people's lives, how much 685 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,000 more do you have to input into yourself? 686 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:35,440 There should come a point where you are doing way more reading 687 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,400 and way more praying than you ever were before because you've 688 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,680 received a level of output that requires the input. 689 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:48,960 And if I value the word, then I'm looking for those moments 690 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:54,080 because when people love stuff, they love spending time doing 691 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:59,560 that stuff and they have no problem doing the preparation 692 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:05,880 required to do it. This is why Paul so much 693 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:10,240 references athletes says man, they they trained to obtain a 694 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:12,280 perishable prize. How much more should you 695 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:17,320 spiritually do it? How much more should we be 696 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,560 putting into our spiritual output? 697 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,200 But how easy It is often times to put the least effort in 698 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,760 there, to put in just enough to feel like we're putting it in. 699 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,160 And then in moments of time that we get to reflect what's in us, 700 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,440 maybe we reflect. And then we reflect, you know, 701 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:40,640 like, man, Christ, that was good. 702 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,040 That was good. And then the third trial comes 703 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,440 and you're gone. You're out, you're tapped, 704 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,080 you've reached the position. We realized, man, my input 705 00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:57,000 wasn't there. I didn't have enough in me, 706 00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,360 right? And I would hate to be in a 707 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,640 moment where man, God wants to use me, but I don't have enough 708 00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:07,600 in me to be used in this moment. I don't have enough here. 709 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,720 I haven't put enough in to really put out. 710 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,880 And so now I'm trying to make something work. 711 00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,720 I'm trying to come up with something. 712 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,520 I'm trying to figure something out, whether than keeping the 713 00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:26,680 words so filled in my heart that it can't help but come out. 714 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,480 It can't help but be the thing that draws from me. 715 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:34,760 You know, I have some great conversations with some of my 716 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,160 friends and inevitably, you know, I, I call, you know, 717 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,920 Pastor Zach Morris from Rhema. We, we talk on the phone pretty 718 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:44,240 regularly and it always at some point kind of goes to Bible 719 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:45,400 talk. No matter what we're talking 720 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,200 about, whether we're checking in the day, at some point, more 721 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,840 than likely we'll end up having a little bit of Bible 722 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:50,600 conversation. Why? 723 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:55,880 Because we just love the word. And if I say that and you think, 724 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,560 man, that's kind of weird, then maybe you don't value the word 725 00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,960 enough. Because if the idea of having 726 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:08,400 spiritual conversations seems weird to you, but you have no 727 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,000 problem talking about politics and sports 24/7. 728 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:20,680 Then we're not feeling ourselves properly, right? 729 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,840 I know there's a lot going on in the world right now and it can 730 00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,080 start to seem crazy and you can start to get paranoid and you 731 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,040 can start trying to piece things together and you start trying to 732 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,920 see what's going on. But do we pull back in those 733 00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:31,760 moments? Say, you know what? 734 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,560 I've I've been filling myself with too much of that and I need 735 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,120 to get into the word and bring peace back into my life. 736 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,760 I need to pull back from these things I've been filling myself 737 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,320 with recently and start putting extra in their season in your 738 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,360 life that you might just for a season have to do even more 739 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:57,480 because you know the demand that's coming, right? 740 00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,920 When we talk about matters of the heart, we're talking about, 741 00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:03,000 man, am I constantly searching. Because here's the thing, if, if 742 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,760 we have to guard our heart above all, then it's not something 743 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,640 you're ever going to get to a place that you stop doing it. 744 00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:17,600 You'll never obtain some level of heart guarding that nothing 745 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:25,360 can get through it. No, we have to continue to keep 746 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,720 ourselves in a position and be continue to keep ourselves 747 00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:32,800 filled and continue to keep that guard up, continue to keep 748 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,240 ourselves in a spot that we can think. 749 00:48:34,240 --> 00:48:37,040 Man, I'm ready for anything that comes at me. 750 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,120 Right, because we all know when you go into a situation 751 00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:45,240 prepared, it's a lot better than being unprepared. 752 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,560 You know, I'm, I'm the kind of person that likes to know what 753 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,400 I'm going. Like, what is the meeting about? 754 00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:55,920 Like don't schedule a meeting with me and just say we need to 755 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,560 meet. Nah, what are we meeting about? 756 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:04,960 Because I want to be prepared. I want to know what's going on. 757 00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,600 I want to be able to put in my preparation work. 758 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,920 Whether it's because I need this meeting to be quick. 759 00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:11,960 And I don't want us to be stumbling around whether I need 760 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,240 to do prep or whether it's you're going to come and say 761 00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:15,960 something. And I want to be prepared to 762 00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,120 come back with what I need to. Whatever it is, I want to be 763 00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,280 prepared because I feel better when I am. 764 00:49:23,240 --> 00:49:26,160 And you can tell when you get into a situation that you're 765 00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:31,560 blindsided by and you're just like, and when we aren't filling 766 00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:33,440 ourselves with the word constantly, we'll get into 767 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:38,400 spiritual situation that would become blindsided by that. 768 00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:42,160 We aren't prepared for that. We're not ready to handle. 769 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,840 So we have to search our hearts. We have to fill our hearts and 770 00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,440 we have to guard our hearts. And we guard our heart through 771 00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:54,880 trusting God, through seeking Him, through finding His peace, 772 00:49:55,320 --> 00:50:00,320 through through putting ourself in a position of knowing who we 773 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,480 are, right? Because like I said, when you 774 00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,960 know who you are and you're prepared for situations, you 775 00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:13,080 handle things differently. You can go into situations with 776 00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:19,280 a different mindset. You know when you realize the 777 00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:23,400 authority you have, you can go into battles knowing your 778 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:30,440 position and you talk different. When you've collected all the 779 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,280 information and you have everything, you need to come in 780 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,520 and say, man, I have all the proof in this situation. 781 00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:42,600 No conversation scary, no, no confrontation scary. 782 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,920 When you know I'm 100% right. I can prove I'm right. 783 00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,560 I can prove you're wrong. I have proof that you did this 784 00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:50,760 and it was not me. You go into the things you're 785 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:55,520 like, bring it on because I know how this ends. 786 00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,440 And that's what the Word tells us constantly that we can have 787 00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:03,720 in any situation we come to, that if we seek after God, that 788 00:51:03,720 --> 00:51:06,480 if we stay in the Word, we can have the word inside of us to 789 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,440 know. No matter what situation rises, 790 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:13,160 I know my position will be that God's Word works and I, he will 791 00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:17,800 see me through this thing, that we will see the other side of 792 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,680 this situation exactly like we need to. 793 00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:23,440 Because I'm going to stand in what I know I'm called to be and 794 00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,400 what I know I'm called to do in the position I was placed to be 795 00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:33,360 in. So don't get complacent in your 796 00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:39,720 value of the word. Because if our heart reflects 797 00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:44,840 what we value, we want to make sure that we're valuing the 798 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:48,520 correct things. We want to make sure that the 799 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,240 value we've placed in the word is not something that will 800 00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:55,240 diminish over time. The words like gold, it only 801 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:58,360 gets better. It only should increase in our 802 00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,320 lives. It should only become more 803 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,360 valuable. Because the more you seek after 804 00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,760 and the more you start to see victories and the more you start 805 00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:08,600 to see revelation, the more you realize, man, what else would I 806 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:12,760 want outside of this? How could I want anything else? 807 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:22,160 Don't lose value in the word. Don't find yourself just letting 808 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,440 it become formulaic. Don't find yourself just letting 809 00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,520 it become something I do something I've been in something 810 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:30,840 I've been around. Oh, I've heard that before. 811 00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,320 Oh, I've been there before. Oh, I've seen that before. 812 00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,360 There's always. That's why it says the word is 813 00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:43,960 alive and active because there's always going to be something. 814 00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:47,320 At Anchor Faith Church, we do a Bible reading plan every single 815 00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,960 year and without fail every single year. 816 00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,080 I actually started last year. I started highlighting in 817 00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,400 different colors. That way when I go through my 818 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,960 Bible reading plan, I can see something I highlighted last 819 00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,960 year that I thought was interesting and compare it to 820 00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:02,880 maybe what I get this year. And it's amazing how I can read 821 00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,800 a scripture one year and not, you know, it's good and you keep 822 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:07,360 reading, but then the next. Year you're like. 823 00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:13,560 That means something different to me now, Like I didn't see 824 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:18,120 this last year. I didn't think about that last 825 00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,320 year. I knew that you know where, 826 00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,720 where, where my heart, my treasure is, my heart is, but I 827 00:53:23,720 --> 00:53:26,240 didn't realize that it was going to be a reflection of everything 828 00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:28,960 I value. I didn't realize that my heart 829 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,120 is just a reflection of where I put most of my time, that my 830 00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,920 heart is a reflection of what I'm in the most. 831 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,640 And that if I'm going to say, well, God knows my heart, 832 00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:40,560 everyone should know my heart because I should be reflecting 833 00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:47,680 it constantly to everyone. I should be in a place of search 834 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,320 my heart. And so tonight when the band 835 00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:57,200 comes up and they sing this song one time all I want, I'm not 836 00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:58,880 asking for an altar call. I'm not asking for anything 837 00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:00,520 crazy. I just want the band to sing the 838 00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,720 chorus and then search your heart. 839 00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:10,360 Take a moment of reflection to think to yourself, man, have I 840 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,400 lost sight of the value of the word? 841 00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,440 Have I lost sight of what I have? 842 00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,800 Because one thing I do love about the fact that I get to 843 00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:20,920 travel is I do go to other churches. 844 00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:22,720 And you know, I've been to a lot. 845 00:54:22,720 --> 00:54:24,040 I've seen some really great ones. 846 00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:26,440 I've seen some that you're like, OK, this is different. 847 00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,000 But it always brings me back to like, how? 848 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:36,560 Good, we have it. That's my personal thing, you 849 00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,520 know, you can see it how you want to see it. 850 00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,920 But for me, when I get back, I'm excited because I'm like, man, 851 00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:45,520 I'm so excited to be around this group of people. 852 00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,280 Because I've seen. Some other stuff outside of it. 853 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:55,360 And I think man, we got it good. And it helps put my heart back 854 00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:59,840 in a position of, man, I value what we've got going on here. 855 00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:03,440 I value what you've placed in Anchor Faith Church, the part 856 00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,640 you've played to get it where it is. 857 00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,080 That gets me excited to continue. 858 00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:14,440 To do this all the time. So tonight, in just this one 859 00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,600 moment, take a second and just reflect. 860 00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:25,400 Lord, search my heart, fill my heart, bring peace, and garden 861 00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,000 my heart. In Jesus name. 862 00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:33,760 Thank you so much for listening to this message. 863 00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:37,200 If you want more, subscribe to our message podcast on iTunes, 864 00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,360 Google Play, Spotify and SoundCloud. 865 00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,000 Rating and leaving a comment will go a long way with helping 866 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,720 our messages get better circulation. 867 00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:46,520 If you'd enjoy watching our weekend messages, visit 868 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:50,600 youtube.com/anchor Faith. 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